October 28-31

In Social Studies we will read "Rainbow Crow" and the children will do a rain dance during music this week. Our Fall Party will be on Thursday. Please bring the items that you signed up for in the hallway for our party. In Science we will read about echolocation from the Exploring Creation book. The children will plant lettuce in our garden and extract pumpkin seeds to take home. In Bible we will color the "Special Prayer" and read Luke 11: 1-4.

October 21-24

The children will continue to work on painting our bats and creating faces for them. We will sing “Bats are Sleeping” and practice moving like bats. In Science we will read “Bats” in Exploring Creation and “Owls” in our Christian Liberty Nature Reader. The children will be planting beets and peas into the garden. Our Field Trip to Country Critters Farm is this Thursday, October 24th. We will leave the school at 9:00. Please be sure to bring a sack lunch and wear tennis shoes. We will plan on returning to school around 12:30.

October 15-17

Our field trip to the Country Critters Farm will be on Thursday, October 24. The admission for children and adults is $7.00. Please turn in your field trip money to Mrs. Hague by Thursday, October 17th. In Science we will learn about feathers as we read “Birds of a Feather”, “Molting”, “Feather Color”, and “Bird Baths” in Exploring Creation. We are planning to label the parts of a feather. We will begin to learn about owls. We will read “An Owl” from our Christian Liberty Nature Reader. We are also planning to plant carrot seeds in the garden. In Bible we will learn about The Fruit of the Spirit: Kindness as we read from Ephesians 4:32. We will read “Tenderhearted in the Bible” and “Tenderhearted at School” from A Child’s Book of Character Building. The children will also work on a little book entitled “Show You Understand”.

October 7-10

In Science we will read “Bird Banter”, “Songs and Calls” and “Claims to Territory” in Exploring Creation. We will read “Bluejays” from Johnny and the Birds. We are planning to pick, press and sketch the Morning Glories that are growing in the garden area. In Music we will play a circle game as we sing “Bluebird, Through My Window”. We will also play a parachute game with butterflies. In Bible we will read “Patience at School” and “Patience at Play” from A Child’s Book of Character Building. In Social Studies we will read about Charles V and the Holy Roman Empire. We will paint a picture of the Emperor.

September 30-October 3

The children will enjoy a presentation by the Dalworthington Gardens Fire Department on Monday. In Science we will read “Migration” and “More Metamorphis” in Exploring Creation. We are also looking forward to sharing our favorite experiences from our field trip to the museum. The children will visit the garden with their clipboards and practice sketching the okra. We will also plant radish seeds into our garden. In Social Studies we will read People Who Help Us: Firefighter and I’m Going To Be A Firefighter. We are planning a field trip to Country Critters Farm on October 24 at 9:00. Admission price is $7.00 for adults and children. We will eat lunch at the farm.

September 23-26

Please remember to turn in your field trip money for the museum and omni. We will be leaving at 9am on Monday.
We will begin to learn about Peace (a Fruit of the Spirit) as we read from A Child’s Book of Character Building.
In Music the children will practice moving slowly and gracefully to Mozart’s “Horn Concerto No. 1 in D Major” and flying quickly to the “Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat Major” with their butterfly wings.
In Science we will begin to learn about butterflies and pretend to be Lepidopterists.  We will read excerpts from Nomads of the Wind and learn about the migration of the Monarch butterfly.
We will read “Butterflies” in our Christian Liberty Nature Reader, and the children will examine a model of the butterfly life cycle.  We will also read about butterfly migration in Exploring Creation. 

September 16-19

In Science we will read “Bird Watching”, “Field Marks” and “Benefits of Birds” in Exploring Creation. 
The children will also pretend to be animals as they move to a call response song entitled “Pole, Pole” from the Smithsonian Children’s Collection. 
We will continue to work on our picture study and Nature Boxes.
We are planning a field trip to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History on Monday, September 30. We will leave the school at 9 o’clock and return at 12 o’clock. “The Flight of the Butterflies” at the Omni Theatre begins at 10:15 (They begin seating at 9:45). We are also planning to visit the children’s area of the museum.  Admission is $8.50 for children and $16.00 for adults.  Please turn this in to Mrs. Hague by Thursday.
We will learn about Chefs as we continue our study of Community Helpers.  We are also planning to make bread this week.

The Flint Academy

Arlington, Tx
No education seems to be worth the name which has not made children at home in the world of books, and so related them, mind to mind, with thinkers who have dealt with knowledge. — Charlotte Mason